KARACHI, Jan 2: Mustafa Zaidi and Basit Gabol survived a scare against their respective opponents on way to reaching the next round in men’s singles of the Sindh ranking tennis championship at the Southend Club courts on Friday.

Mustafa, after conceding the opener struggled to carve out a 6-7, 6-3, 6-1 victory over Omer Shahid Maniya while Basit sweat for over three hours to post 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 victory over Abdullah Khan.

Results:

Men’s singles (first round):

Asim Khan bt M. Essa Jee 6-3, 7-6; Bilal Sharrif bt M. Z. Khattak 6-3, 6-0; Syed Zuhair Raza bt Omer Jahangir (Quetta) 6-0, 6-2; Omer Usman bt Mohib Alvi 6-2, 6-3; Basit Gabol bt Abdullah Khan 7-5, 3-6, 7-6; Mustafa Zaidi bt Omer Shahid Maniya 6-7, 6-3, 6-1; Fahim Ramzan bt M. Ali Zubair 6-1, 6-0; Abdul Rehman bt Sikander Hayat Khan 6-2, 6-3; Syed Abbas Raza bt Waqas Abid 6-1, 6-0.

Boys’U-13 singles (first round):

Usman Shabbir bt Hunny Das 8-3; Ahsan Ismail bt Haresh Das 8-5; Sheryar Hasnain bt Roman Dhadi 8-1; Ali Qureshi bt Zaki Niazi 9-7.

Boys U-9 (round robin):

Kanishkan (Sri Lanka) bt Nabit Bajwa 8-5.

Saturday’s fixtures:

Juniors U-17 singles (second round) 9.00am; boys U-15 singles (second round) 11.00am; men’s singles (first round/second round) 12.00noon.